LEAHY To Gonzales"Your Answers Have Been Wholly Inadequate & Misleading"

[kpete]

Leahy, Specter Demand Answers From Gonzales On Domestic Spying

Senate Judiciary Committee heads Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, demanding he provide answers by June 5 to their “longstanding questions about the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.”

The senators told Gonzales that the new request came in light of James Comey’s extraordinary testimony last week, which raised “very serious questions about your personal behavior and commitment to the rule of law.”

This Committee has made no fewer than eight formal requests over the past 18 months — to the White House, the Attorney General, or other Department of Justice officials — seeking documents and information related to this surveillance program. These requests have sought the Executive Branch legal analysis of this program and documents reflecting its authorization by the President. You have rebuffed all requests for documents and your answers to our questions have been wholly inadequate and, at times, misleading.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/gonzales-nsa-letter/

[tularetom]

1. Yeah and WTF is he going to do about it?

Hold his breath until he turns blue? Even somebody as dumb as Gonzlaes (more likely kkkarl rove) has figured out Leahy is a windbag who won't back up any threats he makes. I don't think sphincter is much of a threat either. The Dems have lost all credibility by acting like a bunch of wusses.

[ccpup]

2. there's a process Leahy

needs to follow. You know, there are people out there who dot their "i"s and cross their "t"s before chopping someone's head off, metaphorically speaking, of course. Leahy is giving Gonzo as much rope as he needs to eventually hang himself. When it finally comes time for Leahy to act -- 'cause Gonzo has assumed what you're assuming --, -- and the media starts bitchin' about partisan politics on the part of the Dems -- Leahy can point to the fact that he gave the Administration and gonzo more than adequate opportunity to provide documents and honestly answer questions. And I trust that time to act is right around the corner.